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title: So he went down to Dapplegrim again and told him what the King desir… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went down to Dapplegrim again and told him what the King desired, and Dapplegrim thought that it might easily be done; but first of all he must have new shoes, and ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel must go to the making of them, and two smiths were also necessary, one to hammer and
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 49

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So he went down to Dapplegrim again and told him what the King desired, and Dapplegrim thought that it might easily be done; but first of all he must have new shoes, and ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel must go to the making of them, and two smiths were also necessary, one to hammer and one to hold, and then it would be very easy to make the sun shine into the King’s palace.

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**Who acts:** part, King, Dapplegrim, all, ten pounds, two smiths · **What happens:** go down, tell, desire, think, do, have · **To what, where:** Dapplegrim, part, best, new shoes, making, sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, King, Dapplegrim, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:38:49
# text = So he went down to Dapplegrim again and told him what the King desired, and Dapplegrim thought that it might easily be done; but first of all he must have new shoes, and ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel must go to the making of them, and two smiths were also necessary, one to hammer and one to hold, and then it would be very easy to make the sun shine into the King’s palace.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
37	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
55	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	smiths	smith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
57	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
58	also	also	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	conj	_	_
62	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	hammer	hammer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	acl:relcl	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	61	conj	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
70	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	75	advmod	_	_
71	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	75	expl	_	_
72	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	75	aux	_	_
73	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	75	cop	_	_
74	very	very	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
75	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	80	nsubj	_	_
76	to	to	PART	TO	_	77	mark	_	_
77	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	75	csubj	_	_
78	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	obj	_	_
80	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
81	into	into	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
82	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
83	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	85	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	’s	's	PART	POS	_	83	case	_	_
85	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | part |  | Dapplegrim |  | again | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | part *not said here* |  | part |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **desire** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Dapplegrim |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | might · passive |  | best *= good* |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **have** | must | all | new shoes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 7 | **go** | must | ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel |  |  | the making of iron |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to making=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **is** | past | two smiths |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **hammer** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **hold** | to-infinitive | two smiths *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  | then | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sun=Product |
| 13 | **shine** | present | easy |  |  | the King's palace |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 14 | **make** |  | iron |  |  |  |  |  | nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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